Witness & Legacy - Contemporary Art about the Holocaust



[
1] Alvin Rosenfeld, A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980), 160.

[
2] Personal correspondence, March 17, 1994.

[
3] Personal correspondence, February 3, 1994.

[
4] Personal correspondence, March 18, 1994.

[
5] Personal correspondence, March 24, 1994; and Present at the Creation (Chicago: Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, 1989), 26-27.

[
6] Personal correspondence, May 30, 1992; and Tarara Siuda, "Art Exhibit Recalls Auschwitz," Mundelein [College] Scholar, 6 (November 17, 1989): 1.

[
7] Cynthia Ozick, "The Uses of Legend: Elie Wiesel as Tsaddik," Congress Bi-Weekly (June 9, 1969): 19, cited in Alan L. Berger, Crisis and Covenant: The Covenant in American Jewish Fiction (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985), 194.

[
8] Personal correspondence, May 21, 1992.

[
9] Personal correspondence, April 4, 1994.

[
10] Ruth Weisberg, The Shtetl: A Journey and a Memorial (The Kelyn Press, 1971). Weisberg's statement has been recorded at various times. See, for instance, Ora Lerman, "Autobiographical Journey: Can Art Transform Personal and Cultural Loss?" Arts Magazine, May 1985, 103.

[
11] Personal correspondence, March 1, 1994; and Murray Zimiles: The Fire Paintings, The Book of Fire (New York: Stuart Levy Gallery, 1993).

[
12] Personal correspondence, December 12, 1992, and March 3, 1994.

[
13] Sherry Chayat, Life Lessons: The Art of Jerome Witkin (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994), plate 6.

[
14] From Ashes to Rainbow: A Tribute to Raoul Wallenburg. Works by Alice Lok Cahana (Los Angeles: Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum, 1986).

[
15] Rosenfeld, A Double Dying, 27.

[
16] Andreas Huyssen, "Monument and Memory in a Post Modern Age," in James E. Young, ed., The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History(New York: The Jewish Museum, 1994), 16. For Nuchi, see Natan Nuchi(New York: Klarfield Perry Gallery, 1992).

[
17] These citations can be found in Edith Altman: Photography/Text/Object (Rockford: Rockford Art Museum, 1989); and Kurt Arbeit (Chicago: State of Illinois Art Gallery, 1992).

[
18] Ibid.

[
19] Lucy Dawidowicz, "toward a History of the Holocaust," Commentary, 47 (April 1969): 56, cited in Alan L. Berger, Crisis and Covenant, 36.

[
20] Ann Poore, "'Jew' Exhibit Recalls Holocaust,"Salt Lake City Tribune, 7 April 1991, sec. E, p. 1.